Re: More race-based hilarity

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Link doesn't work for me.


Posted by: Mr. B | Link to this comment | 01-22-06 4:25 PM
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Nor me. The site seems to be dead at the moment.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 01-22-06 4:39 PM
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Now I want to think of a joke that combines that opening with my girlfriend's punchline: "It's amazing what white folks will say to other white folks."


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 01-22-06 4:56 PM
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It's back now. (Figures. I get a link from Unfogged and the whole wing holding my servers shorts out or something. Thanks.)


Posted by: Kip Manley | Link to this comment | 01-22-06 5:59 PM
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That is a sublime anecdote, FL.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 01-22-06 7:37 PM
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John Thompson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0861027/), a British comic actor, used to do a stand-up routine where he'd come on dressed like a particular style of 'northern' working club comic and, start an array of jokes in the manner of a particular style of racist/sexist comic that, since the 1970s, has largely disappeared from TV and urban comedy clubs but which, nevertheless, continues to exist.

"A black man, a pakistani and an Irishman walk into a bar..."

Generally the second he launched into one of these he'd get people booing.

What made it funny was that the jokes generally went...

"A black man, a pakistani and an Irishman walk into a bar...

...what a fine example of an integrated society"

It used to be interesting how far he'd get into a show before people would stop booing and realising that each of his 'jokes' was subverting the opening of some sub-genre of racist or sexist humour.


Posted by: Matt McGrattan | Link to this comment | 01-23-06 12:18 AM
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hm, i don't know. The joke would be funnier if it was clear there were actually, you know, black people around the dinner table with you.

in Shaker Heights.


Posted by: mmf! | Link to this comment | 01-23-06 6:20 AM
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